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Annemarie Hoogwoud
As a photographer, she has found her artistic voice in the area between the recognisable and the abstract - where nature, light, time and space come together in perfect harmony. Where traditional photography captures what is, Annemarie looks for what could be - moments where the everyday transforms into the mystical, where patterns, textures and colours free themselves from their physical context.
Pure beauty - in nature, poetry, literature, philosophy and art - is the breeding ground for her work. These sources of inspiration helps her look beyond the superficial and discover deeper layers of meaning.
In essence, her work is an invitation to look as slowly as possible and, in that slowed-down gaze, to discover the richness that has always been there, waiting to be seen.
Since my return to the north of the Netherlands, I have started to wonder what home actually means to me and how that manifests itself in my photography. I found myself starting to see "home" in a different context. The abundance of water and the open and wide character of Friesland make it a place for me, a landscape in which I feel at home. At the same time, I also see 'home' in the sense of being at home with myself. When I am home with myself I live more in harmony with my environment.
In a broader context, I believe that when we are more at home with ourselves, there will be less fear and aggression in the world, and the world can live more in harmony. We currently live in hectic, troubled and uncertain times. It is precisely this time that is the source of inspiration for me to depict the theme 'home' as a counterpart to these troubled and uncertain times.
'Home' evokes all kinds of images and words in me: emotion, awakening, intuition, dreams, intimacy, life, your own voice. I take those words with me when I go out with my camera, because when I connect with the words and emotions that evoke "home", the images follow automatically. Soon I saw landscapes of the soul appear in my first images.
And with those images, I then 'paint' a landscape of the soul and I give it the colours that in my experience belong to that specific image, colours in which I feel at home.
Coming home to myself, in the landscape of my soul. That is not easy and remains a constant challenge to look for it and to step out of there into the world.
